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Cyber Security in Supply Chain Risk Management

Businesses should prioritize supply chain security by adopting best cyber security practices, fostering resilience, and promoting collaboration to protect against evolving cyber threats. Learn more about this topic in this blog post.

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22.8.2024

Spreadsheet vs. ISMS tool - top 10 reasons why a tool is better than the traditional way

Discover the top 10 reasons why agile tools outperform traditional spreadsheets in managing cyber security compliance, from centralized management to continuous improvement.

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22.8.2024

ISMS Essentials: Mastering a Data System Inventory for Your Organization

This post provides essential insights for maintaining a data system inventory within your organization's ISMS, detailing key processes, asset types, and tackling common challenges.

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15.8.2024

Incident Detection: Building, Nurturing, and Continuously Improving a Proactive Environment

Shift from reactive to proactive incident detection. Use advanced tools, continuous learning, and customised strategies to anticipate and prevent issues. Focus on constant improvement and innovation to boost security and resilience.

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15.8.2024

ISO 27001 and ISO 9001: Differences, how they work together and benefits of combining

Learn about the synergy between ISO 27001 and ISO 9001. Learn how integrating these standards enhances information security, quality management, and overall operational efficiency, using case examples and actionable insights.

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6.6.2024

NIS2 Compliance: Top 5 Reasons for the Manufacturing Sector

The article highlights the critical importance for manufacturers to comply with NIS2 regulations to safeguard their operations and infrastructure from cyber threats.

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31.5.2024

Cannes Hospital data breach, the impact of AI and NIS2 evolution: the Cyberday product and news round-up 5/2024 🛡️

May's Product and News Update presents the new monthly ISMS reports as well as the Metrics page. Other topics include Cyberday's new framework DORA and recent news around the world.

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17.5.2024

6 ways to assess security work effectiveness

Evaluating the effectiveness of your cybersecurity involves examining the adequacy of your existing security measures. This process helps you identify your current security status and determine the necessary actions to enhance and fortify.

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3.5.2024

Is remote work the new normal?

As COVID-19 continues to spread, remote work is no longer an experiment, but a requirement in many nations. While it represents a huge change, the results of a research conducted by OnePoll and Citrix, reveal that a majority of employees around the world are adapting to working from home and believe it will become the new normal for the way work gets done. “Remote work is not business as usual. It represents a totally new … More → The post Is remote work the new normal? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors, a new report by VMware Carbon Black released at RSA Conference 2020 has revealed. The report uncovers the top attack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) seen over the last year and provides specific guidance on ransomware, commodity malware, wipers, access mining and destructive attacks. Among some of the key findings from the report: Defense evasion behavior was seen in more than 90 percent of the 2,000 samples they … More → The post Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Malware

Hackers are actively exploiting zero-days in several WordPress plugins

There's quite the WordPress p0wnage going on right now.

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

The “Great Cannon” has been deployed again

SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (“DDoS”) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users’ connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site.

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15.5.2020
Denial-of-Service Attacks

What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?

Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative impact right away. This is, for example, what prevents many from making dental hygiene a priority: we all know dental hygiene is critical to our health and a relatively easy “investment”, but … More → The post What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Employee Negligence

Ako Ransomware Uses Spam to Infect Its Victims

It has been discovered that the network-targeting Ako ransomware is being distributed through malicious spam attachments that pretend to be a requested agreement. Last week we reported on the Ako Ransomware and how it was targeting companies with the intent to encrypt their entire network. ID Ransomware Submissions David Pickett, a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at AppRiver, reached out to BleepingComputer yesterday to tell us that his company saw the Ako ransomware being distributed through spam email. Spam email distributing the Ako Ransomware Attached to these emails is a password-protected zip file named agreement.zip with the password '2020' being given in the email. Agreement.zip Archive As shown by this report from JoeSandbox, when Ako is executed it will encrypt the victim's files and leave them with a ransom note named ako-readme.txt. Ako Ransom Note As spam is being used to spread the Ako Ransomware, everyone must be is trained on how to properly identify malicious email and not open any attachments without first confirming who and why they were sent.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Oscar Nominated Movies Featured in Phishing, Malware Attacks

Attackers are exploiting the hype surrounding this year's Oscar Best Picture nominated movies to infect fans with malware and to bait them to phishing websites designed to steal sensitive info such as credit card details and personal information. [...]

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15.5.2020
Phishing

Why You Should Be Prepared to Fight Against Advanced Persistent Threats

APTs may already be targeting your organization. You need to formulate comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, implement robust and stringent security measures, and test your defenses to ensure that you’re protected.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

By Waqas Why a Web application firewall is a vital tool to keep websites safe from cyber attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities